Maps Of The Week

This calendar month Tommy Caldwell too Kevin Jorgeson became the showtime climbers to free-climb the 3,000-foot Dawn Wall of El Capitan. The New York Time's The Dawn Wall interactive is an impressive 3d model of their route upward the mountain, created past times Battista Matasci of the University of Lausanne..

Open The Dawn Wall inwards a WebGL enabled browser too y'all tin follow Caldwell too Jorgeson's climb on an interactive 3d model of the Dawn Wall. As y'all scroll downward the interactive the model rotates too zooms amongst impressive speed. Photos too data nigh the climb tin live viewed equally y'all progress along the climbers' route.


Mapbox has released a gorgeous map of all the roads inwards Japan. OpenStreetMap inwards Japan exclusively shows Japan's roads too streets too omits all over map features.

The roads on the map are colored past times the concluding appointment that they were edited on OpenStreetMap. Roads colored blueish haven't been edited since 2007. The xanthous roads convey been edited inwards the past times year. The Mapbox postal service on the map includes a link to a full-screen map. The map embedded inwards the postal service all the same includes a push clit to speedily toggle to thought close-ups of major cities on the map.


Sailing Seas of Plastic is an interactive mapped visualization of the concentration of plastic inwards the world's oceans. According to the map at that topographic point are 5,250 billion pieces of plastic, amongst a combined weight of 268,940 tonnes, adrift on the seas of the world.

This dot density map shows the estimated concentration of floating plastic inwards the oceans. Each dot on the map represents xx kg of floating plastic. The estimations are based on the results of 24 survey expeditions (2007-2013) too on air current too sea drift models.

You tin besides overlay the sailing tracks of the 24 survey expeditions on meridian of the dot map.